Israel's education minister voiced support on Saturday for so-called gay 'conversion therapy', drawing a disavowal from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose government's religious-rightist tilt has worried liberals a home and backers abroad
JERUSALEM - Israel's education minister voiced support on Saturday for so-called gay"conversion therapy", drawing a disavowal from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose government's religious-rightist tilt has worried liberals a home and backers abroad.
"I have a very deep familiarity with the issue of education, and I have also done this," he told Israel's Channel 12 TV. Israel's LGBT Task Force, an advocacy group, demanded Peretz be fired, saying in a statement his views were"benighted". It was the second flap Peretz had caused in less than a week, after Israeli media reported that he had told fellow Cabinet members on Tuesday that the intermarriage of Jews and gentiles in the Diaspora amounted to a"second Holocaust".
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